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APPENDIX OF AUTHORS AND WORKS
at Numantia (Veil. Pat. 2.9.3) at the age of only fifteen, and began writing his Satires
before he was twenty. This is not intrinsically impossible but is ruled out by Horace's
allusion to L.'s oeuvre as a whole as giving a comprehensive uita senis (Hor. Sat.
2.1.34); it is generally accepted that Jerome confused the consuls of 148 B.C. with those
of 180 B.C. (A. Postumius Albinus and C. Calpurnius Piso); for a compromise (168/
167 B.C.), see I. Mariotti, F. della Corte, W. Krenkel, Maia 20 (1968) 254-70; W.
Krenkel, ANRW 1.2 1240—59. (2) FAMILY: Came from distinguished family of the
Latin aristocracy whose seat was at Suessa Aurunca on the borders of Campania (Juv.
1.20, schol. ad loc.). Horace calls him auus (ps.-Acron ad Hor. Sat. 2.1.29) ant ^
auunculus (Porph. ad Hor. Sat. 2.1.75) to Pompey the Great through his sister;
Pompey's mother was herself another Lucilia. This makes L. great-uncle of Pompey.
His precise relationship to Lucilius Hirrus, pr. 134 B.C. and to M'. Lucilius M. f.
Pomptina, a senator who visited Pergamum as ambassador in 129 B.C., is obscure (C.
Cichorius, Untersuchungen x u Lucilius (Berlin 1908) 2f.; RE XIII (1927) 1638—40,
1642-3, 1647; M. Coffey, Roman satire (London 1968) 35f., and nn. 6 and 8). L. owned
estates in Campania and Sicily (Sat. 3 passim, Cic. Fin. 1.3.7) and the house at
Rome which had been built to accommodate Demetrius, son of Antiochus III, while
he was a hostage at Rome (Asconius, Pis. p. 12.9 K.—S.), and L. or a relative was
among those accused of ranching illegally on ager publicus c. 114-111 B.C. (Cic. De or.
284). It is not clear whether he ever became a ciuis Romanus himself or whether he
married.
•WORKS
Thirty books of Satires: some 1,300 citations, all but a handful very brief. On order of
composition, arrangement, 'publication', and character of these books, the earliest of
which are those numbered 26—30 (iambo-trochaic metres with a small element of
hexameter-writing), see pp. 168—70.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
TEXTS: F. Marx, vol. 1 (Leipzig 1904), vol. 11, commentary (Leipzig 1905), cf.
A. E. Housman, C.Q. 1 (1907) 53-74, 148-59, F. Leo, G.G.A. 168 (1906) 837-61;
E. Bolisani (Padua 1932); N. Terzaghi (Florence 1934, 1944: rev. I. Mariotti, 1964);
ROL in (with brief notes); J. Heurgon (Zes cours de Sorbonne: Paris 1959); W.
Krenkel, 2 vols. (Leiden 1970: with German tr. and commentary), cf. A. S. Gratwick,
J.R.S. 63 (1973) 302-4; F. Charpin (Bude, 1978-9).
SURVEYS:E. Lommatzschj/.^.B 7 .139(1908)213-16; 175 (1919) 91-8; 204(1925)
211-15; 235 (1932) 139-42; 260 (1938) 89-94; R. Helm, J.A.W. 282 (1943) 1-37;
K. Btichner, Gymnasium 62 (1955) 220-5; W. S. Anderson, C.W. 50 (1956) 33—40;
57 (1964) 293-301; 63 (1970) 181-99; J. Christes, ANRW 1.2 1182-1239, and W.
Krenkel, ibid. 1240-59.
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